Great Rescue by Army Tug Freighter, Lighter in Storm
Valuable war materials for the New Guinea front were saved recently when an Army tug rescued a 12,000-ton Allied freighter and…
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Floods & storms, 1944
96 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 5
Fund Opened for Storm Victims
A fund for the Millfield tornado victims who lost their homes and belongings on December 27 has been opened by the Mayor of…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Minor age and slight casualties were caused when an electrical storm struck Sydney and suburbs…
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LONDON, Sunday.—In the face of terrific fire U.S. troops of the Fifth Army in Italy stormed and captured…
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American soldiers equipped with rocket guns, known as the "bazooka," storm ashore on an English beach in manoeuvres preparatory to an Allied offensive against Europe. In North Africa and Italy the rocket gun stopped enemy tanks and blasted concrete pillboxes…
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WASHINGTON. Sunday. — The War Department has banned from circulation among German prisoners of war the Liberal German-American newspaper "German-American" because its extremely anti-Nazi views might be misunderstood by Nazi prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bridges Down, Tracks Covered Flooded Streams Nearly Upset Attack Plans
The night before the attack on the Japanese in the Finisterre Ranges was launched, a fierce, nightlong rainstorm threatened to cut communications with forward areas and prevent the wounded being brought back to the dressing…
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LISMORE, Sunday.—The flood danger on the North Coast has passed. The Richmond River, which rose 17ft. on Friday, had dropped…
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The Navy Department announced that 22 Corsair planes out of a 23-plane squadron were lost in a severe storm…
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 13. A.A.P.—The worst floods for 10 years are sweeping down the Transvaal's high veldt. Millions of gallons of muddy…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday.—A British freighter of 7200 tons was driven ashore at York (Maine) in a blinding blizzard and gale…
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Trams were held up for 25 minutes in the peak period yesterday afternoon. Lightning had struck wires near the old…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Mr. K. Habich, efficiency engineer at Yallourn powerhouse, said to-day that a 40-mile-an-hour wind, which was…
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Millfield Greta Miners' Lodge has imposed a levy of 2s each on its members to assist the victims of the tornado which sweat the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Deluge of Gifts for Quads' Mother
LONDON, Thursday. — Heanor Urban Council has opened a public subscription for the Carpenter quadruplets. All the babies ore doing well…
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When he visited West Maitland yesterday, the Chief Engineer of the Public Works Department (Mr. E. O. K. Green) told the regional…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →House Collapses in Freak Storm
Remains of an old two-storied house in Dowling-street, East Sydney, which collapsed yesterday. About 15 tons of masonry and woodwork fell on to the footpath. Some of it struck an old woman, who was party buried…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—In a freak storm of tropical intensity this morning, a two-storied house in Dowling-street, East Sydney, collapsed, and a…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Injured by falling debris from a house demolisned during a storm on Monday, Mrs. Martha Wilson, 70, of East Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Closed Anzac Day: Flood Of Protests Proposed
The State branch of the Returned Soldiers' League will be asked to suggest to every sub-branch in the State that telegrams be sent…
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